A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon’s masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said’s Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of postindependence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon’s analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.

弗朗茨-法农是一位来自马提尼克岛的杰出精神病学家，曾参加过阿尔及利亚民族主义运动，是历史上最重要的革命斗争、殖民主义和种族差异的理论家之一。法农的代表作是与爱德华-萨义德的《东方学》或《马尔科姆-X自传》齐名的经典作品，现在有了新的译本，为新一代读者更新了语言。地球上的苦难》对被殖民者的心理和他们的解放之路进行了精彩的分析。该书对殖民地人民的愤怒和挫折以及暴力在实现历史变革中的作用有着独到的见解，对独立后殖民政治的双重危险进行了精辟的抨击：一方面是精英们剥夺了大众的权利，另一方面是部落间和宗教间的仇恨。法农的分析是一本名副其实的新兴国家领导人的社会重组手册，在困扰当今非洲的腐败和暴力中得到了非常明显的反映。地球的苦难》对世界各地的民权、反殖民主义和黑人意识运动产生了重大影响，理查德-菲尔克斯的这个大胆的新译本再次确认了它的里程碑意义。